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Rick Greenspan played baseball at the University of Maryland. He is a member of the NCAA baseball committee. He confesses he probably has a softer spot for the sport than most college administrators.

But when he arrived at Indiana University as the athletic director in 2004, Greenspan knew the sport wasn't doing well.

"I had felt for a period of time, as the Big Ten's southern-most school and in a league that I felt, quite frankly, had underinvested in baseball, there was an opportunity for IU," said Greenspan, now the athletic director at Rice. "My sense was that it was ripe for significant ...